ITEM: Up for sale is this antique glass magic lantern slide showing a picture identified as Mrs. S.M. Faitoute. These slides came from the First Baptist Church in Roselle, NJ. Glass is in good condition. Nice addition to your historical New Jersey collection, especially Baptist history. These appear to be from the early 1900's.
SHIPPING: Calculated - first class postage. We will gladly combine shipments to help save you postage. We ask that PAYPAL payments are also paid in ONE transfer. Payment is expected in 21-days. Thank you! NOTE: Some images are enlarged to show clarity and details.
HISTORY: Since its invention in the mid-nineteenth century, the lantern slide, also known as a magic lantern slide, has played a pivotal role in the history of projected images. The lantern slide is a positive transparency that can be projected. It comprises the photographic emulsion containing the image, which is bound to a glass plate and covered by another thin layer of glass; the plates are then secured with strips of gummed paper tape. Various processes are used to create lantern slides including the albumen, wet plate collodion, gelatine dry plate and woodburytype methods.
Before photographic lantern slides were introduced in 1849 by the Langenheim brothers of Philadelphia, images were projected from hand-painted glass plates using a lens. In 1851 Frederick Scott Archer published his wet collodion process, which enabled details to be captured in higher quality, using cheaper materials and shorter exposure periods. The wet plate process helped to popularise the practice of photography among amateurs and professionals, and continued to be used widely until the gelatine dry plate process emerged in the 1870s.